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That stirred flutters of prelatic concern—was a reshuffle in store?

From Time Magazine Archive

And the result of the deliberations of that famous council led by Athanasius,--although both Hosius and Eusebius of Caesarea had more prelatic authority and dignity than he,--was the Nicene Creed.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John

The error of the Presbyterians, it is maintained, lies in their not perceiving this natural and historical connection of the two usurpations, and so retaining the synodical tyranny while they would throw off the prelatic.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

There is something so shameless in this self-contradiction as of itself almost to extinguish the belief that the prelatic royalists were conscientious in their conclusions.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Here might occasionally be seen Bennet Langton, George Stevens, Dr. Percy, celebrated for his ancient ballads, and sometimes Warburton in prelatic state.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington